Office Christmas parties can be the most awkward of places and a treasure trove of embarrassing anecdotes.

Whether you're drinking too much and falling over on the dancefloor or getting a bit too friendly with the guy from IT under the mistletoe, it's not often a night you want to remember.

But spare a thought for this woman, who's absolutely dreading going to her husband's office Christmas party - because she's slept with his boss.

The nervous lady shared her fears on Reddit and asked for advice on whether it would be absolutely awful to skip the party completely.

Writing under the name sleptwithhusbandsbos , she explained: "Before I met my husband, I was single, and dated. A lot. I met this guy and we hooked up a few times. We had really good physical chemistry.

"We had some REALLY kinky sex that is pretty memorable for me and I suspect might be to him.

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"He was 8-9 years younger than me, kind of immature, and I don't think he was looking for a relationship, which I was.

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"Instead of saying I thought we were looking for different things and it wasn't working out, I ghosted him, figuring I'd never see him again.

"The whole thing is really just super-uncomfy (sic) for me. My husband knows that I'm uncomfortable, he knows I 'went out with' this guy and that I ghosted him, but of course he doesn't know the details or how vivid the sex was."

Seeking advice from other Reddit users, she asked if it would be OK for her to skip the party completely so that she didn't have to come face-to-face with him.

"It is at all okay for me to excuse myself from going, or is that just more chickensh**tiness?"

She added: "I don't know if he'd recognise me. I'm not all that or anything. On the other hand, some of the things we did WERE memorable, and the thought of sitting at a dinner across a table from him and both of us thinking about... alla (sic) that... is kind of daunting.

Her husband knows everything - but not the sordid details (Image: Getty)

"My husband thought he recognised me after a brief introduction a year, year-and-a-half ago, but I'm not sure if he REALLY thought that, or if he was just teasing me.

"Anyway, I appreciate your feedback. I'm still undecided about whether to go or not, but the responses here, as I go through them, are helpful. And my husband and I will be talking about it after the kids go to bed tonight."

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When others asked how much her husband actually knows about her encounter with his boss, she explained: "I said that I'd gone out with [Boss] a few times, and my husband knows that means I slept with him, because he knows I'm a woman of loose morals (haha).

"I thought it would be gratuitous to go into detail about the specifics of the encounters with my husband - letting him know the nature of my knowing his boss in general was sufficient.

"I guess it's the thought of sitting at a dinner table with this guy and my husband and wondering whether the guy is sitting there across the table from us thinking about some of the kinky sh** we did, ya know? It's embarrassing and awkward."

She hasn't given any hint as to whether she'll actually attend the party. Hopefully he won't see her talking about it all over the internet... It might make it even more uncomfortable.